229, Lot: 482. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine and Leo VI. 867-886. Æ Follis (27mm, 6.24 g, 1h). Constantinople mint. Struck 870-879. Crowned facing half-length figures of Basil, wearing loros and holding akakia, flanked by Leo and Constantine, each wearing chlamys / Legend in five lines. DOC 11; SB 1712. VF, earthen green patina. Overstruck on an earlier coin of Basil I and Constantine, SB 1721 (uncertain Provincial mint).